“The Crucible” is a 1950s play written by Arthur Miller. This play was written about the Salem witch trials. “The Crucible” is about fear, hysteria, individual vs. society, and jealousy and revenge. The most common themes are jealousy and revenge. This is everywhere in stories, movies, plays, and everyday life. The unknown is a source that can introduce fear which causes chaos, hysteria, and paranoia. People do realize that many of the things that they do are subconscious, people don't think about their actions when they are driven but by fear, they can do various rash things for example in “The Crucible” when Abigail accuses John's wife of witchcraft and he took Mary to confess to lying about faking in court “Ay, sir. She swears now that she …show more content…
John grabbed Abigail by the hair and called her a whore, but he was also outing himself as a lecturer because of his affair with her. “Whore! How dare you call Heaven? It is a whore. I know her, sir. I have. known her for years. No, Francis, it is true, it is true. Back to Danforth. She will deny it, but you will believe me; a man. a man will not cast away his good name, sir, you surely know that— ”. Miller 29 pdf John stated. At that, Point John was only worried about his wife and what would happen to his family. He Didn't Care that he had just been admitted to Open Coet where he sinned. The entire town was stunned, no one knew anyone. at this point in the book the entire town was replaying everything that had happened in the town. the very one that was trusted was now accused of witchcraft. the town was dumbfounded that people that they had known for years had just become witches. the fear and history had taken over the whole town and it had gone into complete chaos. This didn't happen in the book many times in history and had similar impacts and